Death Row Executions in North Carolina - "Time To Die" - A WRAL Documentary
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- This documentary introduces you to Ernest Basden who awaits execution on NC's Death Row. We look into the original crime as well as Basden's case and sentencing. Is death row morally acceptable? How soon should execution be carried out? Is the appeal process fair or a burden?
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Isn’t it amazing how the convicted person becomes vocal about the death penalty when it’s them who are to be put to death, BUT they had no thought for the person they killed
Was just about to say the same thing, but you’ve got it covered. 👍
Pity they didn't " find Jesus" till they were on death row pending appeals for killing someone who didn't have the same taste for violence as them.
Exactly
@@Kelly14UK--Finding Jesus earlier could have allowed them to kill more people because when you "find Jesus" you can do anything you want and still "go to heaven" as long as you "repent." On the other hand, if you *don't* discover Jesus' hiding place, you can do all the good in the world and you'll "go to hell." No wonder Jesus is hiding.
Conviction doesn't always mean guilty.
My son was murdered in 1988...and sometime in 1990, I began volunteering as a grief counselor to families of homicide victims. The group I was affiliated with met every two weeks, where family and friends could freely express their grief. A regular attendee was a lady whose daughter had been murdered more than a decade prior...and the person responsible had confessed and was sentenced to death. There came a time when the execution date was set and close at hand...she was happy, almost animated. However, the execution was stayed by a Federal Court...and, at the next meeting, she was livid. She wanted...she said she needed closure, that she could not allow her daughter not to rest in peace. Now, I was then...and continue to this day to be against the death penalty for reasons I won't elaborate...but when I heard her maternal anguish I thought that maybe the man should die so this woman could regain something of her life...or, as she said "Closure." A month later, at a meeting...and, after I had read in the newspaper the execution had been carried out and the man was now dead...she was there. I walked up, placed my hand reassuringly on her arm and I recall saying very softly, "I read it in the paper...how are you?" She had this odd look in her eyes and tersely said, "I hope the ***** rots in hell" and other remarks I won't repeat. It was then and there that I came to fully realize that closure only comes from learning to deal with what is real...and at times that means what life has not so pleasantly put on our plate. Life is not tidy...
Note: Ernest Basden, the subject of this documentary, was executed in December 2002.
Closure isn't real. You never get it.
She’s never getting closure , but at least a small sense of justice. I’m sorry for your loss.
@@AlaFrigginBama Can you be more insensitive than this?
There are things that we may get but, are unrealistic and fleeting at best. Security & closure.
She killed a 4 year old, bragged about it then kicked her husband and received life?!
But the guy was sentenced to death for killing one person
She was released back in 2022 after serving 29 years for the death of her husband, Billy White Sr. and his four-year-old son. She’ll remain on parole until 2027.
Women got it so easy
@@JonathanHaberski you should watch the documentary of Wanda Jean Allen it’s a pretty good one
The motto "you live by the sword, you die by the sword," comes to mind.
Why the hell wasn't that evil wife given the death penalty? Not only did she hire to have her husband killed, she murdered his 4yr old son by fracturing his skull!
I wondered the same 🤔
She’s already out of prison and her parole will be finished in 2027.
The problem was having a Joe Bloggs coroner decide cause of death instead of a qualified medical examiner.
If you're going to have the death penalty on the books, use it. Otherwise get rid of it. Stop pissing away taxpayer money.
americans should get rid of their opsession of having a personal gun, be it a pistol,revolver or rifle. just for a start
stop weapon flow, less murders,less death sentences.
@@afazi55 I don't believe that's gonna do much. If you want a gun you'll get it.
The guns aren’t the problem….. the fucked up ways of thinking are! Depression, and lack of “parents” getting involved in their kids lives are the problem.
@@edwardzx7 I agree man. But let's be honest there's still some crazy people out there haha.
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Ernest Basden was executed on 6th of December 2002 by Lethal Injection.
Final Meal:
Basden did not request anything special for his last meal Thursday night, choosing instead to eat what all others at Central Prison ate. The menu included breaded veal, brown gravy, mashed potatoes, three-bean salad, mixed vegetables, slices of loaf bread, an orange and fruit punch.
Final Words:
"I killed Billy White. I'm sorry for it. And I pray that his family will come to forgive me and let time heal their wounds. And that's all we can do."
Thank u for that info as I was wondering what happened to him and it's strange watching this programme from 1997 he is now dead!!! Do they still have Death Penalty in North Carolina?
@@simonmcgrath4112, yes but it's a fake death penalty now. They make the murderer think they're going to be executed but they pay for his room & board, as well as medical, food, and utilities the rest of his life..... That's NC for ya.
That is more air and burgers for me
@@sailasimone6175 I am sorry but it's ok for the state to kill but when someone else does it's all hang him from the gallows, sorry in my eyes murder is murder , and the bloodthirsty society craves it craves to see someone die, that is so hypocritical, in my eyes again murder is murder no matter who does it, it is worse to do a life sentence then on death row, ask any lifer would they have the death penalty or that life sentence, I bet they would say death I would put money on it, because I know I been there!!
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The people they killed didn't have 15 years to appeal what they got. Neither should those that killed them
What about those who are innocent?
@@modelsteamers671
What about them? 😜
You’re absolutely correct. 2 years- done.
Same with that last meal crap.
Death penalty should only be applied to cases with irrefutable proof. DNA, fingerprint, etc. No one should be executed based on the testimony of an eye witness. Once sentenced you have 5 years to appeal. None of this waiting 30 years. Imprisonment is not the punishment, death is. Imagine if a jury sentenced someone to life without parole but waited 25 years to actually out him in prison.
agree wholeheartedly...many murders done on video...unchallengable evidence-execution should follow shortly after conviction
I was a correctional officer for 4 years and I never met a inmate that was “guilty”.
Worked in the system 14 years. Very few say they are guilty, but most claim innocence. I have seen a few lifers exonerated by DNA evidence after they have done significant time.
Yeh. me too*🤙
When I was in jail, I KNEW I was guilty, but I wasn't joining to tell that to a guard. (Or anyone but my lawyer).
Weird, I don't think I've ever met an innocent "officer".
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Juror thought the death sentence meant he would stay in prison long enough until he learned his lesson? that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard how did he even get through jury selection
My thoughts exactly??!!
TBH he did sit in prison until he learned his lesson. It was the execution.
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Bloody silly idiot,then,isnt she!
atleast you lot still have jury selection, jury selection was abolished in england and wales in the 80s . now you get just random 12 people who could decide your fate ; 25 to life
The wife who planned the murder of her husband, should have been given the death penalty.
She is female, she has privilege
I agree.Worse than the one who did the act.
she also killed her 4 year old step son and didn't even get the death penalty, kidding
She didn't kill her husband she paid someone to do it so she didn't murder him
@@StrikingAlexa In some States that still counts as first degree murder. Texas is such a State.
in Japan they dont tell you the date of execution. One morning they get the condemd inmate. Wuthin an hour, he's hung. I always wondered if that was better or worse.
Any good Japanese death row doco’s please?
IIRC they always do it on the same day of the week, Monday or something. I heard a radio program talk about it that on Monday morning as the guards are walking down the row of cells of death row the inmates are freaking out and crying, shuddering in fear that this Monday morning was theirs to be taken to the gallows.
@@sburns2421 damn . ....so, thats what Ive been asking ppl....is it more cruel to know you're finally going to the Chair next week.....or..like in Japan....just out of the blue on any given Monday....bam! And i heard its like in about two hours too.
I wonder if the guards did Iny Meany mighty Mo, on them 😀
@@bdawg3942 haha we all like a food death row doc especially them what drop you in an hour's notice 😂
Killer's talking about death row is murder 😂 the irony
A bad childhood, being intoxicated etc. isn't an excuse. A lot of people have had bad childhoods been intoxicated etc and aint do shit.
Cathy shut up and bring the dam ham
No they shouldn’t be. Nor are they. They are factors, as to why that particular individual is the way he or she is however. Nonetheless you take those factors, any and all others, the individual themselves as a person in the present time, the crime, the nature of the crime, the motive, & back to the individual, do they understand what they did? Do they understand the consequences? What was their behavior after the crime? And of course their demeanor in the court room during the proceedings? Simple questions actually if they are looked at it with face value & common sense. Even if they are no longer a danger to society! Sometimes the crime should = Death.
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Ain't do shit? I know something you "ain't done", and that's learn to write properly.
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Death penalty cases should require DNA evidence proving the person committed the crime. Witness testimony, circumstantial evidence should be not be allowed during sentencing. To many innocent people are on death row.
I don't agree with death penalty period but DNA evidence would at least stop innocent dying! 4 percent I believe is the innocent number!!! Sickening!
Put to death right away!He's guilty that's enough, stop killing innocent victims then you won't be facing the bullet.
"if there are too many people on death row"then there should not be a death row however that's the way it is in a military tribunal if there is no dna evidence you cannot get a conviction
@@mareewalker1096 correct I can't understand why people would be willing to risk innocent life to protect innocent life
@@charlesciminera5881 yes it's straight up wrong! Death penalty should be gone decades ago! As long as it stays innocent will die it's as simple as that!!
Many defendants confess " guilty" to avoid death penalty, even the toughest guys are afraid of death!
Actually, it’s been proven time and again that it’s not a deterrent. They need to shorten the appeal process for that.
When the convicted was starring in the eyes of their victims as they were killing them, I bet the victims didn’t get appeals for their lives. Put these psychopaths to death if that’s what the sentence is. Now I understand if there was some wrong doing in the courts or they didn’t get to show proof of their innocences but the 10,11,12 and so on appeals that these people get are fucking disgusting. Love how we show the compassion to these people that sure as hell didn’t show when they killed their victims. Smh
Murders murders we murdered people to get where we are now but just accept it like captain cook with the aboriginals
That fine but I'm sure afew of them have been innocent
The boobies that run our government can barely organise fair taxes, you want these clowns to have life and death power over citizens?
They live way too long and that means the absurd has become the norm. Was 23 in '91, first memories '71. An eternity before and another era for culture. Had someone told me such and such is getting executed for stuff done during Vietnam and when The Beatles were splitting it would be unbelievable. Had Britain had the death penalty in '91 it would be commuted to prison. Executing for 20 years back is considered draconian in my country.
And keeping them alive mocks the families.
@@stephenhoward358 I have never murdered anyone, so enough with the we.
Yes cut down on the appeals and carry out the death sentence within 2 years
Exactly, make more room for another pos
he was ex'ed on december 6, 2002 already
in the UK when we used to have capital murder it was within a year ! to be fair though back in the late 60s we didnt have shit load of felons to execute with appeal back logs
@@geezerp1982 we all didn't have guns either
@@geezerp1982 And even though you guys executed a few too many who were innocent. It is a good sign there's no death penalty in UK anymore. I still believe that your coppers should carry guns and that dangerous people should be kept under control . Greetings from Toronto.
That letter from then 8yr old Mr. Meares, to his father was heavy. My heart goes out to the children of both the victims and the condemned.
I think 🤔 this is an EXCELLANT idea it a form of torture not knowing when your going to die, this is how the Victim felt when they were murder they had No 💡 idea they were going to loose there life without any notice to them and there family. This is how Executions should be handle in the USA.
Some should tell this child explain what the person did is against the law
I worked with Basden's sister. She was a a older lady and took it hard. We took up a collection to send flowers to his funeral..😢
When someone takes another person's life, the victim usually begs for their life. This is an appeal. The criminal ignores this appeal. Why should the killer get one appeal, much less several appeals.
If you have hard proof that the killer is guilty, then they need to be executed. There is no reason for these monsters to sit on their asses at the tax payers expense.
Stop feeling sorry for those who have no issue with taking another person's life. They do not deserve empathy. They deserve to die, and they should die the same way their victims died.
The death penalty, when carried out, stops repeat offenders.
I want you to teach me how I can be angry at these people and hate these killers too, because I can't help but feel sympathy for them.
I agree
Who would kill them like they did their victims..what person for example should stab jodi arias 30 times shoot and cut her throat?
Life in prison stops repeat offense..ur hate is as bad as them who killed in first place..
I've snorted and shot a mountain of coke and smoked pot since I was 14,stop blaming drugs they don't force their way up your nose or in your arm.All comes down to bad choices.Free will
Thank you!
Free will is an illusion but as someone whose been clean 13 years I agree. I hate when people blame others for something like drug use. I made the choice to do them.
In UK, when we had the death penalty, the period between conviction and execution was 'three clear Sundays' - just over two weeks. The sentence was carried out by a skilled hangman using the 'long-drop' method, which was tailored to the individual prisoner, so that their neck was broken. Unconciousness, followed by death was virtually instantaneous. The hangman took on avererage less than 10 seconds from entering the condemned cell to having the culprit hanging on the rope, still. I think this was much better for all concerned, except the lawyers who make more money the longer they can prolong the process!
wrong ! its wasnt always 3 weeks, that only happened if no appeal or straight forward appeal case like in ruth ellis case
@@geezerp1982
As far as I know, once the verdict was reached and setence passed, there was usually an appeal heard by a panel of judges sitting in chambers. There was very rarely any new evidence and the judges would determine if this was relevant and that the trial had been conducted correctly according to law. They could recommend a reprieve. The family and public could also petition for the Royal Prerogative of mercy, excercised on the Sovereign's behalf by the Home Secretary as a last resort. Reprieves were granted in something over 60% of cases in men and a massive 98% in women. (Ruth Ellis may have been the last woman hanged, but she was far from the last to be sentenced to death). If the Home Secretary decided against the use of the Royal Prerogative, he would write "The law must take it's course" on the case file. If a reprieve was granted, the prisoner would be informed immediately by the prison governor. If no reprieve was granted, the prisoner would be told 48 hours before the sentence was carried out.
90 days.
@@michaelalexander2306 Wasn’t his name Albert Pierpoint?
I may have spelled it incorrectly.
I heard he wrote a letter to Ruth Ellis’s family, expressing regret about that particular execution.
Would love to know if I’m right or not!
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Thanks for your reply. Albert Pierrepont was the chief executioner in Britain for many years. I actually met him, though I was very young at the time and didn't know who he was.
I remember saying to my father what a nice chap he was and my father saying "If you only knew. Don't ever tell your mother". I never did.
Ernest Basden was executed Dec 6 2002 at age 49 by lethal injection
I live in Australia where we abolished the death penalty in the 1960's, I'm kinda on the fence which is probably not much better than being pro death, It's a difficult issue, What I often find is that nearly all the guys on death row are anti death penalty, it would be interesting to think what their opinion would be if their own mother, wife, sister or daughter was murdered.
Apparently, death penalty isn't deterrent lots of crimes keep on happening.
I saw a one of many Documentaries on LOCK UP RAW ( Prison show we had in the USA years ago ) A Guy who Kidnapped two 18-19 year old college kids then murdered one by cutting his throat with the explanation from his own mouth that it was basically because he was caught and didn't get the money and was Going to jail so he decided I'll kill this kid.... When the Interviewer asked him Hey Listen MAN I have a question for you You told me you have a 15-16 year old daughter and a son that just turned 18 years old and is in College right ? ..... What would YOU do if someone did what you did to YOUR CHILD!?!? The guy portrays this hard bass man that is super smart in the prison system yet a basic thought like that didn't cross his mind and he was Pretty much speechless , turned red and it was a thought mentioned to this man that he never could ever think on his own. That Freaking wild!!!
@@fckingpolitician795 True BUT it solves the problem of keeping vile people alive where they are quite happy to kill again in prison
It’s not so difficult decision when they kill our loved one!
There is a case here in the U.S. where a guy murdered his mother, brother and tried to murder his father. The father, a staunch death penalty supporter, went to great lengths to commute his son’s death sentence. And this is in Texas. His son’s death sentence was commuted but I haven’t seen him working for other people on death row.
So how come she gets life for two murders and he gets death for one?
Well that's my question too, most unfair!
Because she's a woman. They can get away with things men go to prison for. It's called #gynocentrism.
Most probably bc of her gender
And she killed a child! Just what she said about it being so easy, that should put her on death row right there. Anyone who finds bashing a 4yr old over the head fracturing his skull easy... Is nothing but evil. Not to mention trying to cover it up.
Why do they sentence murderers get sentenced to death,and then keep them on death row,for 15 or 20 years???..its bloody ridiculous!..inside a year,is long enough!
because there is backlog of appeals at the state and federal courts this is not the 1960s anymore, the the prisons and appeal courts are full of felons
It's strange wanting to kill people, quickly , why is America 🇺🇸so violent with each other more so than any other country in the west, strange
It's to make sure 100percent there guilty! But still 4 percent who get death are innocent!!
They just explained why,so maybe rewind the video and listen again..its all to do with government finances,or something😁..I'd like to know why some cold blooded murderers get executed,while others dont
That poor woman. You can tell how hurt she still is. ❤
life in prison is just as bad as death
Nothing is worse than executing an innocent person. Not only does an innocent person die, but what’s worse is that the guilty person(s) are still free to commit further crimes. Appeals are necessary and essential to our justice system.
this happened in the UK
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the real killer was caught later and executed by hanging
Perhaps unless irrefutable dna evidence is provided to connect the criminal to a crime and there’s absolutely no question as to their guilt, people should be sentenced to life without parole.
No they are essential to line lawyers pockets
@@gowdsake7103 convicts are usually represented through the appellate process by appointed lawyers, free of charge. Most of them don’t have money to pay private attorneys. Public defenders usually have high case loads and many clients; trust me, those lawyers aren’t making the lions share of the money that private attorneys get, especially for the amount of work that they do.
With DNA evidence the chance of that happening is slim to none.
Just to close the books - Basden was executed on December 6, 2002 in North Carolina.
Im from Raleigh . I went to Central Prison for medical and I saw them red suits. I talked to a guy on Death row and he was calm. I learned my lesson
Good for you!
Capital punishment should stay on the books if only to use as leverage to obtain guilty pleas. Threaten death, get a guilty plea and in the end you get what you wanted all along.
Innocent people plea to avoid death .... fantastic logic
I wonder if the woman who said "killing is easy" finds life imprisonment "easy?"
It probably is easy.
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he may have completed changed his life around but he still has to pay for those crimes
Justice should never be about retaliation but rehabilitation. It is not beneficial for society to kill and torture criminals.
@@scholi7735 Sure is beneficial, the *Victims* sees real justice!
@@scholi7735 would you use that paragraph again if ..and I hope not.. a member of your family was a victim...?
@@scholi7735 for non-lethal crimes yes,not so for murder,
It is not beneficial for society to rehabilitate murderers
“I thought the death penalty meant more time in prison”. Holy fuck. She shouldn’t be allowed to serve on a jury.
Amazing how they all find G-d on death row.
It’s because they will be meeting him soon.
God bless those that find God in their 12tht hour
God bless evermore those.. whose lives were taken away because of theese. sinners :(
GOD HAVE MERCY Kyrie eleison!! :(
The reason their on DR is cause they strayed away from god? I did and ended up a drug addicted and alcoholic....clean and sober 18+ years. Also have no idea if his parents brought him to church? I doubt it....
Yeah its even more funny when they cry infront of the judge and say they have remorse for there crimes GTFO
It's disgusting the way that the victim's familes can be so marginalised by the legal system,and all because there's no money to be made off of them.
FYI.. (if you didn't already know).. Basden's appeal was denied and he was executed in 2002.
They actually let her off on parole even when Billy’s sister would attend her parole hearing every time to make sure she stayed in prison🤷♂️
I dont believe there should be any plea deals in any murder case
They use it when they think the evidence may not be enough to convict. Such as lack of a body. They may offer it to try to get the location of the body for the family and evidence also.
Cases they do not offer one means they feel they have a strong case.
I use to believe in the death penalty. After seeing the program (death row stories) I don’t anymore. The saying is “Get a conviction and let the truth land where it may” I have come to realize there are too many people convicted then exonerated after spending decades in the death house. Naturally I’m not saying all prisoners are innocent but there are more then we know who have been accused falsely!
If people are worried about putting an innocent man/woman to death, then they need to go after ONLY the ones they are 100% sure of. The murderers who freely admitted to it, bragged about it, masturbated thinking about it, etc....yeah, those ones.
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@@sailasimone6175 There is no 100% certainly. Scientists say that you can not prove a theory you can only disprove. You can never account for every variable. Apply this to legal. No matter how much we know and how much technology we have we can't recreate a scene to 100% accuracy. You can prove to me beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty and should get life. But if I am going to execute someone I need 100% and that is something that can never be obtained.
....... When the murderer admits to it, shows you how he did it & laughs about it. Yeah, execute him. He has no remorse. There's the 100% and there are a few 1000 murderers who openly admit to it, brag about it, masturbate in their cell thinking about how he raped & strangled the victim or child. Believe me, if it was your mother, sister, daughter, you'd change your mind real quick and want to go and torture them yourself.
@@sailasimone6175 There still isn't 100%. Confessions are not always true. Interrogations are not always done with integrity, crime scenes and evidence can be contaminated, and the list goes on. Life experiences have shifted my perspective on a few things, including the death penalty. I live next door to a gentleman that came within an hr of his execution. He ended up being exonerated. How many innocent people haven't been that fortunate?
The execution was carried out on December 6th, 2002.
‘Mitigating circumstances’…how is it that millions of people have WAY worse childhoods, yet do not make the appalling choices that these criminals do?
Because they found support and got help..
This caught my attention because I live in NC. I am a death penalty opponent and a big reason I am is the case of McCollum and Brown. Local men who spent 30 years on NC death row for a murder they didn’t commit.
That is something different ,but, if he was convicted, thenthe table should have changed
@@josephmichaeldicarlo2041 They spent 30 years on Death Row. Clearly they must have been convicted. Do you think murder suspects are kept in a cell for 23 hours for 30 years before they go to trial.
If you do not want people to think you are stupid say nothing or risk confirming their suspicions.
What really pisses me off about that case, is that if the detective on that case had done a little more investigating he would've got the right man(and preventing him from committing yet another murder)
If the US maintains the death penalty option, the multiple layers of appeals must be also maintained. For people saying to kill them that afternoon, within a month, etc...be glad you live in the US and that is NOT what happens. There have been men on death row exonerated and released, there have been men that received new trials and had their sentence reduced. And there has almost certainly been innocent men executed by the state even with these processes in place.
For some reason, Missouri hasn’t updated their death row/executed list since 2014. Does anyone know why?
Because were in 2019 lol
Party Crasher oops, my bad, I meant 2014.
I wonder why they question the penalty when they’re facing it and not when there inflicting it
Ernest Basden was executed December 6, 2002.
shame
@t why are people suffering in chronic pain allowed to suffer cruel and unusual punishment by being denied medication that relives their suffering? No one defends their rights;
On average, condemned inmates spend fifteen to twenty (15-20) years on death row. The time is spent appealing against their sentence. If the appeals fail, the journey to the execution chamber begins at the Judge's office. The judge signs the death warrant. Within ten (10) days, the judge concerned signs the warrant of execution. It contains the procedures about who to be executed on a certain date, a certain time, a certain room and a certain manner. =Source: Last 24 Hours on Death Row, Judge Robert Francis
Basden was executed in 2002 in Central prison Raleigh NC.
I live in the UK and the death sentence was abolished in 1965 because of in some cases the wrong people were hanged. when people were sentenced to death they had just 3 Sundays to appeal. If the appeal failed the prisoner faced the hangman. on execution day the prisoner was executed at 9.0am the gallows were right next door to death cell with a concealed entrance. The hang man would enter the cell with his assistant and the prisoner had his or her hands tied behind there backs. The little door to the execution room was opened and the prisoner was taken in very quickly on to the gallows trap door there were two marks on the trap door where the person to hang.would stand and the assistant would strap the prisoners ankles together and if is was a woman they would get a extra strap above the knee.at the same time the hangman would slip on the noose and white hood over the head. the rope length had been set for the correct drop to break the spinal cord. the extra length was tied up in a loop with a tiny piece of string which broke loose when the prisoner dropped.was set the day before. The hangman would them pull out the safety bolt and pull the lever to open the trap door. the prisoner would drop and there neck would be broken. They died without any suffering. Within 20 to 30 seconds of the hangman and his party coming into the death cell. There were no relatives allowed to watch the execution only prison staff. male or female depending weather it was a man or woman because they were hanged in different prisons. I think lethal injection is the most long winded way to execute someone you do not die that fast.The first drug only makes it so they cannot move. The other drugs do not kill very fast, the prisoner dies slowly and painfully. I think they should stay in jail and do work to compensate the victims families. Many executioners in Britain had many misgivings about putting people to death and some took there own lives,
And now we have Sutcliffe, Bellafield, Neilson, Phillpot living the life of luxury curtasy of liberals
Serial killers who have been convicted should be executed within 2 years. More appeals judges are needed to speed up the process and lessen the cost to taxpayers feeding and housing convicted killers. The fallacy that the society should not take a human life is hollow because the killer had no regard for a human life. Killers of 2 people should automatically be eligible for the death penalty. Why should a killer be allowed to live longer in prison than in many cases their victim lived?
If they were in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia it is swift. They are not on death row for years.
You can't say killing is bad then do the same to criminals
The other side of that coin is that it takes roughly 6 million dollars of taxes to execute someone vs about 175,000 to keep them for life.
@@Aawsomeguy yes, but that is sharia law, you don’t want to mention that to the loons on here.
@@stephenhoward358 Yes you can. There’s a difference between Killing Someone & Murdering Someone! Are Soldiers Murderers? When you have the Vet put your pet down because they’re sick, is the Vet a Murderer? And by affiliation are you an accomplice to that Murder?
UPDATE : Ernest Basden was eventually executed in 2002
Is the attitude of presumption of innocence really respected in a criminal investigation?
The chances of an innocent person being put to death is low? That is still to high for the innocent person being executed for me and them period!!
I believed in the death penalty as well right up to the point I was wrongfully arrested and saw just how dishonest the police actually are when they've got someone in the frame and they are determined to stitch em up no matter what. Ive seen nothing since that makes me think differently in fact having watched police attitude of late quite the opposite. Life should mean life unless new evidence is found to change anything. Thats it.
@@heyabusa1 exactly
That's why I support DNA testing. This has exonerated a lot of people already. If the DNA evidence proves beyond reasonable doubt that the prisoner committed the crime, then he or she should then be executed.
@@heyabusa1 what was the charge for ? were you arrested then taking in for questioning ??
@Paul Blackman in ur mind
Twice now in my family, I’ve had two cousins murdered by their spouses or soon to be ex spouses. Once in 1985 and once in 2016. Both times the murderers killed themselves afterwards. The trash took itself out! Rest in heavenly peace cousins Tiffany, Wanda, Sylvia, Theresa, Brenda!
Theresa and Brenda were kids! 😞
@Paul Blackman Correction. Wasn’t MY family that did the murders. It was whom my family unfortunately married into. So don’t be calling us strange!
so sorry for your lost
@Paul Blackman really wasn’t my blood family that were the murderers. The victims were my blood relatives. My cousin Sylvia was married to someone whose ex wife was keeping their son away from him. He became depressed, and didn’t want to live anymore, and he didn’t want Sylvia to be all alone, so he took the lives of her and her two girls from her previous marriage. The young girls, Brenda and Teresa lost their Daddy in 1977 due to a motorcycle accident. My cousin Tiffany was divorcing her soon to be ex, who was a pervert and narcissistic controlling person. He was jailed for trying to have sex with his step teenage daughter. He posted bail, and then returned to the home with a gun. So much for the no contact order placed up on him. Just a piece of paper, and no protection for Tiff and her teen daughters. When he snuck into the home in that late afternoon April 2016, his intention was to kill my cousin Tiffany, and her two teen daughters. Tiffany’s Mom Wanda was there helping Tiffany box things up in the house, so it could be sold. The one daughter of Tiffany’s was not home, the other one snuck out of the house when she seen her soon to be ex Step Dad come through the door. She called 9-1-1, when she hid outside the home. Tiffany and her Mom Wanda we’re both killed, and then the idiot killed himself. 😞
Black on black crime ?
That is sad at least those useless people aren't taking up space after what they did to your kin- and the whole family so sorry
How the woman kill her stepson and not get the death penalty.
And THEN conspire to kill her husband. I don't understand our justice system 😕
I personally know an innocent man that was killed by the state,where is the justice for his family?
Bet ya bollocks yo a barn dance they werent religeous before conviction!
One more time in English?
@@jshepard5840 bet your balls , then someting about a barn dance and how they probably werent into religion before they got into death row
Or after the religious part is to make out they are somehow redeemed so they dont get executed, i guarantee if they get out they will offend again.
@@jshepard5840 burn baby burn baby burn
Who gets the death penalty when a person gets found not guilty after being executed, or released after years of prison for a crime they didn’t commit
A good place to start would be Tex-ass. The name Todd Willingham is synonymous with the innocent being executed.
@@gastropod557 He burned his 3 kids up in a fire. That piece of shit was not innocent
it’s down to the jury to determine whether the defendant(s) are guilty BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT. The only thing that could be blamed for an innocent persons execution is the jury’s thinking process during deliberations when determining a verdict of guilty or not guilty.
@@JayJay-gk6cr Not if that thinking process is based on incorrect or incomplete information.
@@JayJay-gk6cr so if they find an innocent person guilty, they get the same sentence.
Some people are just too pure hearted and to blind to the world that they would even try to save a convicted killer. This is what happens when you have too much "faith" in your beliefs.
years ago, every first degree murder conviction resulted in a death sentence, usually carried out promptly, sometimes in public. Then, the thinking turned into saying death penalty was to be reserved for the worst of the worst, and what resulted was confusion and mixed results , mixed inconsistent results, and that is not justice. Before England removed the death penalty, all murder convictions were hanging offenses. Being confined in a small, poorly ventilated cage is a penalty that now is the standard in an increasing number of states in america.
Basden was finally executed December 6, 2002
the prolonged wait is the beauty of death row
thats what i believe too .
a shot and a nap is childsplay compared to what murder victims ' loved ones have to live with for the rest of their lives . twenty years of dashed hopes ( appeals and disappointments ) seems more fitting to me .
For the guilty maybe
As a British person, whose country abolished the death penalty in 1965, I cannot accept the death penalty for ANY reason. 1) Too many people have been executed who later turned out to be innocent. 2) Executing somebody does not bring the person back. The sorrow goes on. 3) There are TWO families involved in an execution. One is the grieving family. The other is the family who has lost a son or daughter to execution. Both families are innocent and two wrongs do not make a right. What I am seeing here, is nothing short of vengeance. In the UK, we also have crime. Sutcliff murdered 13 women. Brady and Hindley tortured and murdered several children. All of them died in prison. They never saw freedom again. And they were hated nationally forever. They are STILL hated. But they were not given the opportunity to get out of their sentence by means of execution. 4) The death penalty clearly has not stopped murders. Consequently, it does not and never has, acted as a deterrent. I do not support the death penalty, I will NEVER support the death penalty and I am horrified that in 2021, America is so far behind the vast majority of countries. North Korea executes. China executes. No country that executes people can claim to be a democracy. I would have expected that America would have moved past the death penalty by now. I guess they haven't.
Well said
Maryland got rid of the death penalty in about 2013…just weeks later Kami Ring from Port Deposit was brutally murdered from a probation violator….look up that case
Murderers sit on death row for way too long!
Several people are thought to have been wrongfully executed. In 1950, a man named Timothy Evans was executed for murdering his daughter. Three years later, authorities discovered that another man, who rented a room from Evans, was a serial killer and actually responsible. A fire started by an arsonist in 1991 was blamed on Cameron Willingham. Three of his daughters perished in the fire, and Willingham received the death penalty. Willingham was executed in 2004, but since then, evidence originally said to prove his guilt has been shown to be inconclusive. Although his innocence cannot be proven, if he had not been put to death, the case might have been reopened and he may have been found not guilty after an appeal.
One of the most well known cases of possible wrongful execution involves Jesse Tafero, a man accused of murdering two police officers. There were two accomplices involved in the incident, Walter Rhodes and Sonia Jacobs. Rhodes testified against the other two in exchange for a light prison sentence. He later admitted that he was the only responsible party in the slayings, but even with the new testimony, Tafero was put to death. It took two years for a review of Jacobs’ case to take place, and afterwards she was set free. It is widely believed that Tafero would also have been set free were he still alive for an appeal.
Jesse Tafero also suffered a horrible fate in the electric chair, his execution was botched. Innocents put to death. Such an inconvenient truth for death penalty supporters…
John christe lived there before evans...and evans wasn't landlord..get facts straight
And don't forget evans was retarded and forced into a confession...
Love 90s / 20s documentary
What's the update on his death row case?
How many people having spent decades in prison have been released, found completely innocent?, how many have spent decades on death row and been found innocent?.., time to end the death penalty.
Unlike many of the condemned, Ernest apologized specifically for the murder he committed. Wish they'd find honesty, compassion, etc before they took lives.
Good doc.
I am neither for nor against the death penalty. I must say though, the attorneys have a long list of reasons that he should not face the death penalty. Not one of the reasons given is innocence.
I wish NC would resume executions. Its been far too long.
Why was he the only one to get death?? The widow basically killed a child and then her husband even if she didn't do the job herself with her husband. She defintely deserves the death penalty she killed a 4 yr old child!!! Not fair she's got life and Ernest got death. This is just sickening that because she's a woman she deserves to live. Our justice system is so screwed up and unfair!!
She was recently granted parole too smh
My state has the death penalty, but it hasn't been used in decades. If I am right it's been since the late 1980's when the last person was executed here, that is just ridiculous. At that point you might as well just give them life without parole, why have a death penalty and use it once every thirty plus years???
I find it amusing that they always find God once on death row.
1:49 that lawyer had the face of a 4 yr old lol.
We should execute some defense lawyers me thinks.
Why dont throw in some prosecutors to while your at it lmao.
And prosecutors , media people, judges , politicians , presidents , kings , queens & whole fucking bunch of cops .
Get rid of every last one of them. The only reason we need lawyers is because there are lawyers.
Can you imagine killing a 4 year old by stuffing plastic down his throat and fracturing his skull! What monster can do that Imagine your new wife killed your child and plotted and executed your own murder. He never knew never suspected for decades. Do we really know someone? Scary.
in the UK it was 3 weeks after the conviction (3 Sundays) they were executed. In addition the execution was far quicker than the USA which seems to take hours . In the UK it took an average of 10 seconds , death cell to died on the rope. Peipoint once did it is 7 seconds.
3 weeks only if no appeal, with appeals it was longer then 3 sundays !
@@geezerp1982 you only got one appeal then one change to get the home secretary to commute the sentence. A surprising number did not appeal.
After 2 yrs.
They should do like they do in the Middle East, they just give the condemned 24 hours. Short and sweet.
Are you saying you want sharia law in the USA?
What about those who are innocent?
@@modelsteamers671 that don't happen, they're guilty.
@@geemeff not every person on death row is guilty.
@@modelsteamers671 listen bud, I was inside for just shy of 22 years and I heard that same sob story every day "I'm not guilty, blah, blah, blah, cry, cry, cry", inside we is all guilty bud.
Wish we had the dearth penalty here in the UK…..it’s needed in many cases!!!
Thank God that part of my life is over. I did 8 1/2 years in Salisbury, NC. Not a fun place to be
'What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.'' ---- Job 12:14
"God is Not Great" Christopher Hitchens
what myself and george carlin want to know is, they sanitise the area where the needles go in...........why?
I agree but they consider that “standard medical procedure”.
In case there is a stay of execution.
@@InDreamsYourMine They give them anti histamines to prevent an allergic reaction to the drugs. That is about as stupid as a chocolate frying pan. They do not want an allergic reaction to being killed?
@@robshepherd3782 it's not to prevent allergic reaction, but possible infection.
@@InDreamsYourMine Infection from what? They are killing them. If there is something in the death chamber that can kill them faster than the drugs why bother injecting them at all. Just leave them in there and let that do the job.
At 12:30 the comment really dates this video, when they start talking about that in the future there could be 12 executions or 1 per month in 1998. This video originally was broadcast on July 1st 1996. As of today, January 12th 2021 , that was 24 years, 6 months, 1 week, 4 days or 8961 days ago..... That is entire new generation of people born since then and here we are at the same issues with the system, with even more evidence that the "Death Penalty" is not applied equally or fairly. With serious questions of evidence for failure to run DNA testing on criminal evidence on multiple cases. Doing an evidence test to be sure that you are executing the right person is a small cost in the high cost of execution already costs, and a very important and modern safety check. Which has proven how fallible a jury is and the court system where prosecutors care more about winning their case than making sure justice was fully performed.
"He was high on Marijuana when he confessed" 🤣 They call this Journalism
As it happens this murderer was executed in 2002. I hope the victim’s loved ones can now move on with their lives with some sort of peace.
As soon as the death sentence is given it should be carried out within 24 hours.
There used to be a time in this country where your death sentence would be carried out as soon as the gallows were built right outside your cell but then we have liberals in this country so we don't get to have that kind of fun and it is quite entertaining to watch them dance
@@cal4207 you re an idiot.
In the UK up until the last executions in August 1964 the execution took place after three Sundays had passed. That gave enough time for an appeal to the courts and Home Secretary.
Yeah and see how many innocent people are executed.
@@InDreamsYourMine how about the number of innocent people murdered by released murderers?
I cant believe that person who lost his dad 50 years ago, wanting quick death for inmates. Doesnt he realise his father would be with him now? So many would be given a fair chance if they were given life! So many innocents.
They don’t have this problem in Saudi Arabia, 24 hours a fret guilty charge , you’re executed
In England before the abolition of the death penalty it was no more than ten weeks and that was with your appeal, unfortunately we screwed up on a few occasions RIP to those who unjustly were Put To DEATH...."....😫🩱🎤
10 Weeks? Really? I thought it was at least a year? I know it was abolished 6 months prior to Ian Brady & Myra Hindley’s trial! Which was I believe 1963 or 4? And there was talk of bringing it back for them! Their crimes were as heinous as they get! They should’ve been put to death!
At least we did the right thing and abolished the death penalty.
@@coffeecrimegal5968 1969 ! suspended in 65 . Hindley might of been initially arraigned on capital murder indictment then later re-arranged on non capital murder - not sure though
yeaa and a lot of innocent irish would have been murdered
The appeals process can’t go on and on like this. It’s ridiculous! How can anyone stuff plastic down someone else’s throat and then fracturing their skull, especially a 4-year old child??
In case anyone is interested, here's the latest on the widow:
"Sylvia Ipock White was released from prison on December 2, 2022 after serving 29 years for the death of her husband, Billy White Sr."
Women get a free pass from the legal system, and it's astonishing how unfair it can be.
Worked in corrections for 30 years and they all find Jesus when they get locked up, if and when they get out Jesus will still be locked up.
i find it intrestly that the US and canada call their prisons systems department of corrections in most of the UK its called HM Prison service
(fun fact the county jails called the county gaols, were taken over by the HM Prison service back in 1877 because the under sheriffs would mistreat the prisoners badly and just let them rot whilst awaiting trial or saving misdemeanor imprisonment sentences )